Have you tried to use these codecs with Avid Media Composer? Presumably, Avid Studio is aimed at people who work with the AVCHD, or h.264 MOV files of most HD videocams or DSLRs, who don't have the need or appetite to convert to low compression codecs, since there projects involve relatively few passes, so the IQ conservation of the low ...

JVC has launched a compact 4k videocam that, priced at $5k, is hardly any more expensive than a high-end DSLR with lenses.  Mere rental of a RED can cost that much or more.  Even if 4k HDTVs or displays remain a rarity for years to come, 4k video would be handy for the sake of cropping wide-angle action scenes.  This would be great ...

jjn: AVCHD is a marketing term as much as anything. Not so.  AVCHD is a trademark name licenced by http://www.avchd-info.org/ under strict terms.   Until the association agreed on specifications for AVCHD2 in mid 2011, Panasonic (although a sponsor) was unable to call it that in 2010 models that employed essentially the ...

gjslaw: 1.  I resolve to set my camcorder to use an AVCHD video resolution no greater than 1280x720.  This will help me to edit my videos smoothly on my three-year old dual-core computer, avoid the waste of time converting my full HD video to MPEG2, and Aunt Tessie won't notice the difference when she watches my DVD on her 32 inch ...

jjn: Anyway, there is something odd going on here. Having revisited PS14 (not 15) on my desktop, I discover the the 17Mbps video from my panasonic is more laggy than it is in AvSo (and as I remember it being). But here is the odd thing - .mp4 AVCHD files from a HD Hero Go Pro and full 46Mbps AVCHD from my Canon 5Dii aren't anywhere near as ...

The existing PC is not suitable for viewing or editing AVCHD in native format, even if you do upgrade to S15.  It might be able to convert the files to AVI or MPEG2, using Axara, but the question is how well the Axara conversion was employed or worked.   When you play the converted MPEG2 files, prior to importing into ...

Most qualms about editing in native AVCHD would vanish if people shot all video in 1280x720 @ 13mbps or less.  Any higher resolution or bitrate become superfluous, if future viewers are apt to see the video on 10'' 1280x720 tablet screens streamed over the Web.  It's not as though, years from now, when 4k or 8k video become the ...

What brand of disc are you using?  Some brands of DVD+R-DL are notoriously unreliable for burning.  Every try Verbatim brand?  It has a relatively good reputation. Check the size of the ''disc image'' on the hard dive, too, in case that also happens (for whatever foul reason) to be equal to only 1/4 of the disc size.  ...

Studio 12 cannot import or edit the 35mbps Cannon files unless you convert them first to HDV MPEG2, whose peak export bitrate in S12 is 30mbps at 1920x1080.  S12 supports source AVCHD up to 17mbps or HDV up to 25mbps. Studio 14 introduced compatibility with the higher-bitrate DSLR video files.  However, I'll defer to Canon owners ...

What sort of AVCHD are you trying to edit?  The 28mbps AVCHD2 or 24mbps AVCHD1 strains a PC without adding much in the end, IMHO.  If you shoot at a lower bitrate or resolution, the editng task is easier, without anyone but the pixel-peeper perceiving much IQ difference.  In low light, or if the camera shakes, or on ...